Gabriele Zaffiro, in his new manuscript presents an assessment of the thermo-elastic behaviour of rutile based on X-ray diffraction data and direct elastic measurements available in literature. Gabriele’s results confirm that the...
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In her latest study Claudia Stangarone carried out ab initio hybrid Hartree-Fock/Density Functional Theory simulations to determine the structure and vibrational modes of zircon, ZrSiO4, as a function of different applied strains. In her...
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In this new nice chapter of the saga of the orientation of inclusions in diamonds Paolo Nimis proposes the mechanical interaction between euhedral crystals in a fluid-rich environment as the most likely mechanism to produce the observed...
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Shock in meteorite impacts may transform zircon (ZrSiO4) into a denser polymorph, reidite, but the mechanism and significance of this transformation has been obscured by discrepancies between observations on natural and experimental samples. In...
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This short course, organized by Silvio Ferrero and Pierre Lanari aims to offer to PhD students and early carrier scientists working in the fields of metamorphic petrology, petrochronology and geochemistry a detailed overview of the most recent...
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Mara Murri marks the beginning of the new year with an incredibly nice paper showing the effect of non-hydrostatic stresses on the structure of alpha-quartz. This investigation carried out through ab initio hybrid Hartree–Fock/DFT simulations...
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Quoting the really nice paragraph by the Editors of American Mineralogist about our paper: Stressed out! On page 2032 of the December issue of American Mineralogist, Campomenosi et al. provide a detailed analysis of strain mapping via Raman...
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METEORITI, CRATERI DA IMPATTO E TUNNEL DI LAVA: IL CONTRIBUTO DELLE SCIENZE GEOLOGICHE ALLO STUDIO DEI MATERIALI EXTRATERRESTRI E DEGLI ANALOGHI PLANETARI E ALLA PREPARAZIONE DELLE FUTURE MISSIONI ESPLORATIVE PLANETARIE Mara Murri gave a really...
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In his new paper published in Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie Ross Angel explains the development of the past year that led to the current version of the stRAinMAN program. This allows the strains acting on inclusions trapped in their host to...
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Come and see us at SIMP in Catania. The Conference of the “Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia” SIMP where we will present some of the new exciting results on elastic barometry and metorite impact processes. Here below you...
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In his new paper Nicola Campomenosi addresses the issues related to the release of the residual pressure in the inclusion due to exposure to the external pressure after polishing of the thin section. He illustrates with a careful set of...
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EPSC 2018 Early Career Researcher (ECR) Bursary Application has been awarded to Mara Murri to attend the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin (16th – 21st September 2018).
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